Ocean Hill

Ocean Hill is a neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York City, located in the larger Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood. Ocean Hill is located to the south of Bushwick, east of Bed-Stuy, north of Brownsville and Crown Heights, and west of Cypress Hills. From the 1900s to the 1960s, Ocean Hill was an Italian ethnic enclave, but African-Americans moved into the area during the "white flight" of the 1960s. In 1977, Ocean Hill went up in flames during the citywide wave of arson that followed a major blackout, and many apartments were badly burned and abandoned. During the 1990s, many abandoned buildings and empty lots were renovated, and Ocean Hill underwent gentrification during the 2000s. In 2010, Ocean Hill had a population of 31,935 people, with 77.7% being African-American, 17.9% Hispanic, 1.6% multiracial, 1.4% white, .6% Asian, .4% Native American, and .3% other; there were only 2 Pacific islanders in the neighborhood.